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Joseph, a bearded young man, bare-headed and wearing a short tunic, stands before the Pharaoh of Egypt as he interprets his dreams. Ten magicians and wise men of Egypt crowd around, according to Chapter 41 of Genesis. The magicians are dressed in oriental costumes and wear turbans. Four of them have hoary beards, as does the Pharaoh, who, holding a scepter, rests his feet on a cushion and supports his left hand on a throne decorated with sphinxes. Above the Pharaoh is a domed canopy decorated with ribs and scroll ornament, its edge trimmed with a tasseled lambrequin. A dog lies curled up on the tiled floor in the foreground. In the left background is a building, probably an arch of triumph, with twin columns of colossal order. In the middle, beyond the groups of people, appear the seven cows of the Pharaoh's dream, a tree, a town and mountains. The source of the scene is a woodcut by Bernard Salomon in "Biblia Sacra," Lyons, de Tournes, 1556, p. 23.The rim is decorated with four repetitions of an amphora flanked by armless siren-busts each terminating in a curled leafy tail. Between each such group is a grotesque mask, alternately male and female.On the reverse a rosette is at the center, inscribed with the initials C. I. Strapwork with alternating grotesque masks and bunches of grapes or other fruit are applied on a cusped octofoil with a beaded border. On the rim is a wreath of laurel leaves with twice three fillets. Between the strapwork and the wreath are scroll patterns.